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Updated Nov. 20, 1998 7:46 p.m. ET

Eidos Releases Tomb Raider III

Britain's Eidos PLC released the third version of its most well-known game, Lara Croft's Tomb Raider III, and analysts are predicting it will be a big seller. "It will be a massive seller for the company ... another colossal seller," said Nick Gibson, an analyst with specialist technology investment bank Durlacher. Eidos has only once released sales figures for the game, when earlier this year it said sales of Tomb Raider I and II in combination had topped eight million units. Analysts said prerelease orders of the new version are already well in excess of a few hundred...